Main Table of Contents

  0: Introduction
  1: Motional electromagnetic induction
  2: Interactive problem: motional induction
  3: Induction: a coil and a magnet
  4: Physics and music: electric guitars
  5: Motional induction: calculating the potential difference
  6: Magnetic flux
  7: Faraday's law
  8: Interactive problem: Faraday's law
  9: Flux and motional induction
10: Interactive checkpoint: space tether
11: Faraday's law and induced electric fields
12: Sample problem: the incredible shrinking ring
13: Induced electric fields have no electric potential
14: Lenz's law
15: Motion, forces and induced magnetic fields
16: Physics at work: an “induction-powered” flashlight
17: Electric generators
18: Interactive problem: a generator
19: Quantifying the emf induced in a generator
20: Interactive problem: configuring a generator
21: Eddy currents
22: Mutual induction
23: Transformers
24: Sample problem: primary winding in a transformer
25: Interactive problem: configuring a transformer
26: Self-induction
27: Inductors and inductance
28: Calculus and the inductance formulas
29: Sample problem: induction
30: Interactive checkpoint: emf in an inductor
31: Calculating the inductance of a solenoid
32: Sample problem: configuring a solenoid
33: Inductors and time in an RL circuit
34: Interactive problem: inductor in an RL circuit
35: Derivation: current and induced emf in an RL circuit
36: Energy stored in an inductor
37: Derivation: the magnetic potential energy of an inductor
38: Magnetic field energy density
39: Gotchas
40: Summary

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